Eurosport Asia-Pacific has acquired exclusive broadcast rights to up to 60 games of the Kontinental Hockey League per season.

The agreement runs for two years and is a first for the top-tier Eurasian hockey league, which has never before achieved a comparable amount of TV coverage in Asia. The contract also covers mobile and Internet rights on a non-exclusive basis. Previously, ESPN decided to air select KHL games across different platforms during the NHL lockout.

"Certainly. I am very comfortable in Moscow, Russia in general, but my soul is across the ocean, in the NHL, with Washington Capitals, with whom I still hope to win the Stanley Cup," Ovechkin told VM Daily (via Alex Ovetjkin and Puck Daddy).

"Alas, every week, even every day and hour, the hope that the NHL lockout will be solved, is decreasing."

Dynamo Moscow has won 24 of its 31 games and is the West's top team. Ovechkin has 12 goals and 15 assists in 22 games.

Finally, Pittsburgh Penguins star and 2012 Hart Trophy winner Evgeni Malkin had a goal and two assists Monday as Metallurg Magnitogorsk beat Spartak Moscow 7-4. Malkin has 12 goals and 25 assists, making him the league's No. 3 scorer behind Sergei Mozyakin and Alexander Radulov. Metallurg has won 17 of 31 and is fourth in the East.